Robert Krim Podcast Trailer

Bob Krim is a leading expert on the factors that have driven and continue to drive Boston (and Massachusetts) to be the most innovative city in the US.. He authored with Alan Earls Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics: Innovations that Changed the World.

His revelations about Boston have been made into a permanent exhibit at Boston’s Logan Airport Terminal C From Massachusetts to the World: Four Centuries of Innovation which draws millions of visitors each year. .

Founding and leading the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative, he put together a multi-university research team to comb through the region’s 400-year history for clues. For a dozen years, they engaged with hundreds of organizations and businesses to understand why nearly four hundred innovations that truly changed the nation or the world were developed in Greater Boston and not somewhere else. Krim raised $9 million to fund the Innovation research and the Collaborative.

The Collaborative found five drivers working together – “The Bump and Connect” based on 450 innovations originating in Boston/Mass that changed the nation or the world which explained why this region is so innovative.

Most recently he co-founded the Innovation Trail a 2- hour guided tour through Kendall Sq and Downtown Boston of 21 sites of innovations which originated here and changed the nation or the world. Boston Magazine awarded the Trail tour as “the Best Walking Trail” In Boston in its Best of Boston July ’23 special edition.

Earlier (2000-2008) he had developed a bus tour, … Read More